PREVENT THREATS TO YOUR FAMILY’S HEALTH IN THE HOME: COMMENTARY SERIES ON GREENING YOUR HOME AND THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF URBAN HOUSING

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Prevent Threats to Your Family's Health in the Home

Previous Abstracts in this Series

• Commentary Series on Greening Your Home and the Sustainable Development of Urban Housing: Tuesday 13 September 2011
• Greening our Homes? What are the issues anyway? 1 October 2011
• Environmental Attributes of Your Home Site 5 October, 2011
• Increasing Efficiency in Natural Resource Use for Housing Construction, 20 October 2011
• City Building Permits Encouraging Green Homes, 27 October 2011
• Environment Health and Toxic Use Reduction for Green Homes

 In “Greening Our Homes? What Are the Issues Anyway?” Conway Fung Homes talked about the five major categories of issues involved in going green in housing construction:

1.       Environmental attributes in site planning

2.       Increasing efficiency in natural resource use

3.       Toxic use reduction

4.       Minimizing end-use human health and environmental risks

5.       Enhancing end-use energy efficiency

  In this abstract we bring Conway Fung Homes’ readers to the topic of minimizing end-use human health and environmental risks (item 4 above) from the perspective of itemizing major indoor health threats.  Conway Fung Homes’ readers can take practical steps to address these threats by asking new homebuilders and major renovators how they are adopting the latest technologies and techniques for:...READ MORE